Total first world problem. What’s yours?

I nearly lost my mind the other day when the Starbucks app was down. It still isn't 100% and I'm annoyed.

My neighbor is hosting happy hour tonight. I love her and all my neighbors, but I'd really like to stay home in my pajamas. I'll have fun, so I'm going, but...

I can’t believe I’m typing this because it is such a fwp but here you go.

My dd and her dh are looking at houses and one we looked at had a nice pool in the back yard with a 1 ft deep Baja step. We had our pool resurfaced and built in a 2 ft Baja step and I put a couple plastic Adirondack chairs on the big step. I told her that my Baja step is too deep and when I sit in the chair to read, I have to have a swimsuit on or something that I don’t mind if it gets wet. If it was only 1 ft deep, 1 could sit out there and read without having to change in and out of a swimsuit.

My dh pointed out that we could get different chairs that may help this travesty, but that was my first world problem—the Baja step in my backyard pool is too deep at 2ft deep instead of 1 ft deep.

I have a couple today.

I hate the BB&B soap that someone put out in our downstairs bathroom so much that I put it back in the cupboard. It was Toasted Butterscotch Latte and I could not stand the lingering smell on my hands. 

I set my ancient iPod to shuffle. I thought it was on my Favorites playlist, but no, it's the entire music library and random Christmas songs are playing. I'm annoyed but haven't bothered to get up and press the two buttons to fix this FWP. 

I have a phone and I love my phone. I have managed to stress my neck by reading on said phone. I could get rid of the phone but there is no way I am doing that. I love my phone! I guess neck problems from phones happen in other countries. I just consider myself privledged to have a new phone. (I am not giving it up though!)

B&BW will let you exchange it. I've done that. Or, I know this is crazy, but throw it away. If you really can't stand it, let it go.

That is a much better answer.

I had a dream last night that my cat brought me a lizard as a "gift". I woke up at 3:00 a.m. in a panic and didn't go back to sleep. I am tired. Darn cat. 

It’s so common it has a name - tech neck! Haha.

We’re getting quotes to do renovations. We have a couple of decisions to make that are pretty much fine either way we go, it’s just a matter of $1,000 or $2,000, which isn’t a ton, but could be a lot in the grand scheme of things. It will look good, and function fine either way, but I still may lose sleep over the final decision. LOL

My elderly Mom called me after I returned home from taking my 15 yo dgs shopping. I had already changed into my lounging clothes. Mom needed a few things at the grocery store, can I take her. I put my clothes back on, drive over, pick her up and go to grocery store. Last item on her list is the $5 fried chicken special. But alas, they don't have any, but it would be ready in 25 minutes. I saw the wheels churning in her head and I actually told my Mom NO. She talked about it all the way home. No points for me!!

Definitely the person who describes soap as flavors deserves it.

I have the ultimate 1st world problem. Tomorrow, DH and I are going to New Orleans for 5 days for a work function of his. We're staying in a nice hotel (Royal Sonesta) near the Quarter that has a pool, a gym, a coffee shop, and a couple of restaurants. New Orleans is one of my favorite cities because, hey, music and food. And you can walk around on the street and drink. So what's the issue, you ask? NOLA is pretty much always super humid but the temps this week are going to be in the high 90s and 100s with heat indices in the 110s. Well, wait until after dark to venture outside, you might say. Wednesday at 10pm the temp is going to be 90 degrees! 

I do not tolerate heat and humidity very well, one of the reasons I moved from Arkansas to Connecticut. One summer in NOLA I was visiting and doing laundry in a laundromat. I got so overheated I went to the bathroom and vomited.

So I guess I'm going to forgo walking around, taking the streetcar through the Garden District, shopping on Magazine Street, getting coffee and beignets, standing in line at Community Market for a muffaletta, Frenchmen street market. I'll suffer through: go to the gym, bring books and read in the pool and coffee shop, and take air-conditioned Ubers to restaurants for dinner. And wish it were October.